War Memorial
WAR MEMORIAL, BROWNHILL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391450
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-2005
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL, BROWNHILL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391450
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-2005
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL, BROWNHILL STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL, BROWNHILL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ruyton-XI-Towns
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ3990722281
Details
RUYTON XI TOWNS
1574/0/10011 BROWNHILL STREET
15-DEC-05 War Memorial
II
War Memorial. 1920. Stanley Griffiths. Sandstone. Constructed in the form of a cave within a red sandstone cliff. At the back of the cave is a carved stone cross. To either side is a stone bench. Above the bench on the left is a rectangular stone plaque, with the county and borough coat of arms, commemorating those killed in The Great War. The inscription reads `1914-19 The Great War in memory of' and then lists 17 names. Beneath the list the inscription reads `We will remember them/This present life is not the end/Also in honour of the 130 other men who served from Ruyton-XI-Towns'. Beneath this plaque is a smaller stone plaque commemorating 5 men who were killed in WWII. Above the cave entrance is carved the date `1914 - 1919'. Further down on the left hand side in a slight recessed rectangle is the date `1939' and to the right is `1945' in the same format.
HISTORY
The monument was unveiled in October 1920 by General Kenyon, with buglers of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry surrounding the Last Post.
SOURCES
Boorman, Derek (1988) `At the Going Down of the Sun'. York.
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 19 January 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 494708
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Boorman, D, At the Going Down of the Sun, (1988)
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 19 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/13823
War Memorials Online, accessed 19 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/109987
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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